Pope John IX

Pope John IX (840-1 January 900) was Pope from 898 to 900, succeeding Pope Theodore II and preceding Pope Benedict IV.

Biography
John was born in 840 in Tivoli, Papal States, and Pope Formosus ordained him as a Benedictine monk. In 898 he was consecrated as pope after the brief reign of Pope Theodore II in December 897, and during his reign John consecrated a metropolitan and three bishops for the Church of the Moravians, who wanted to have a hierarchy of their own as the Holy Roman Empire threatened their existence. He died in 900 AD.